basic curl command - this will render to the screen the contents of the google.com homepage (which is actually a 302 meta tag forwarding thing): curl http://www.google.com
verbose, will show both request and response headers (good for debugging): curl http://lc.yi.org -v
Curl is a great tool for resuming downloads (among other things).
- It can do things that the old GetRight download accelerator program used to do, except with the command line and it's open source. (LOL, is that what I used curl for in 2005!)
An example from somewhere in Red Hat's site:
curl -C - -O 'very_long_url'
[ do not include the quotes ]
Works in Linux, Windows, and practically everywhere else.
get curl here: http://curl.haxx.se/
tags: wget, curl,